The mall offers elegant, simulated pedestrian streets, edged with trees and lined with cafés and luxury-brand stores, all under a translucent glass roof that admits natural light but keeps at bay the hostile outside temperatures, which can rise above a hundred and twenty degrees. The mall is Kuwait’s principal recreational resort: twenty-two million visitors went there in 2013, eight times the population of the country. In 2014, four hundred and fifty thousand of them went to KidZania, which ranks as Kuwait City’s No. 1 attraction on TripAdvisor.

Kuwait, it was explained to her, has almost no tourist industry—its only visitors are Saudis for whom Dubai is too racy—and so drawing local visitors back repeatedly would be key to KidZania’s success. One particular concern was attracting parents, for whom there is little to do inside KidZania, and who had been voicing objections to the twenty-seven-dollar adult entrance fee.

The ceremony took place in KidZania’s theatre, most recently used for an adaptation of “The Wizard of Oz” that conformed to local mores. (The representation of wizards is forbidden in Kuwait, so in KidZania’s version the wizard was on vacation.)

also ukraine just doesn't capture people's attention anymore. if russia actually decided to go all in then it would be cool, but they're doing the subterfuge shit and that's BORING

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TEHRAN -- Iran’s House of Cartoon and the Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex plan to hold another international contest on the theme of Holocaust denial in the near future.

The 2nd International Holocaust Cartoons Contest has been organized in protest against French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo’s recent publication of the cartoons insulting Prophet Muhammad (S), the secretary of the contest, Masud Shojaei-Tabatabaii, said in a press conference on Saturday.

SOE was responsible for the development and release of numerous online PC titles including the recently launched zombie MMO H1Z1 and the upcoming EverQuest Next, as well as popular shooter MMO Planetside 2 as well as many more.

“Sony Online Entertainment, newly rebranded as Daybreak, is a great addition to our existing portfolio of technology, media and entertainment focused companies. We see tremendous opportunities for growth with the expansion of the company’s game portfolio through multi-platform offerings as well as an exciting portfolio of new quality games,” said Jason Epstein, Senior Partner of Columbus Nova, in a press release. “The recent Early Access launch success of H1Z1 is just one testament to the talent and dedication of the studio’s developers to create great online gaming experiences.”

For a person suffering from recurrent C. difficile infections, even leaving the house can become nightmarish. This aggressive intestinal bug affects 500,000 Americans every year, 20% of whom will face multiple relapses. Where antibiotic treatment has failed to help, though, a new treatment called fecal microbiota transplantationhas shown a cure rate of 90%. In this procedure, a fecal microbiota preparation using stool from a healthy donor is transplanted into the colon of the patient. OpenBiome helps facilitate this procedure by screening and processing fecal microbiota preparations for use in clinical settings.

It was a year ago this week that Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook responded to a climate-change heckler at the company's annual shareholder meeting with an impassioned rebuttal in which he famously told investors who care only about profits to "get out of the stock."

Now Cook is putting his prodigious sums of money where his mouth is, proclaiming the “biggest, boldest and most ambitious project ever,” an $850 million agreement to buy solar power from First Solar, the biggest U.S. developer of solar farms. The deal will supply enough electricity to power all of Apple’s California stores, offices, headquarters and a data center, Cook said Tuesday at the Goldman Sachs technology conference in San Francisco.

For a person suffering from recurrent C. difficile infections, even leaving the house can become nightmarish. This aggressive intestinal bug affects 500,000 Americans every year, 20% of whom will face multiple relapses. Where antibiotic treatment has failed to help, though, a new treatment called fecal microbiota transplantationhas shown a cure rate of 90%. In this procedure, a fecal microbiota preparation using stool from a healthy donor is transplanted into the colon of the patient. OpenBiome helps facilitate this procedure by screening and processing fecal microbiota preparations for use in clinical settings.

FCC made it's ruling to classify broadband internet as a public utility today. This will give the FCC more power to regulate internet providers but also threatens to kill internet innovation because less $$$ for internet providers means less incentives

Things it did:

disallowed paid-prioritization

requires ISPs to be explicit in their charges and data throttling - it has to say it in the contract, easy for the consumer to find

data throttling only allowed when it is due to network contraints, no more "will unthrottle data for $$$"

didn't rule on data caps, states that argument hasn't been settled

won't charge ISPs a "help the government offer cheap internet to poor people" fee like other utilities

Honestly I don't expect to see much of a change for this, at least in my day to day net usage. Maybe internet will cost more, maybe some ISPs will write some nasty letters about the gubberment, gonna have to wait and see.

Net neutrality means ISPs cannot privilege one connection over another, nor slow one connection and not the others. Without net neutrality Comcast could, for example, prioritize Hulu traffic over Netflix (they own Hulu) and people's videos would load faster on Hulu than Netflix and that might make more people use Hulu. The big fear was internet service turning into cable TV where you buy different packages to get usable access to certain sites. e.g. you need a Comcast Gold account to get fast access to Zulusquad.org. Not sure if that was ever a realistic fear. But in general it would be bad for startups if the ISPs could throttle their speed and demand extra fees for a faster connection.

IIRC the new regulations reclassify internet as a utility like gas or power or water meaning the provider has to treat all customers the same.

Net neutrality means ISPs cannot privilege one connection over another, nor slow one connection and not the others. Without net neutrality Comcast could, for example, prioritize Hulu traffic over Netflix (they own Hulu) and people's videos would load faster on Hulu than Netflix and that might make more people use Hulu. The big fear was internet service turning into cable TV where you buy different packages to get usable access to certain sites. e.g. you need a Comcast Gold account to get fast access to Zulusquad.org. Not sure if that was ever a realistic fear. But in general it would be bad for startups if the ISPs could throttle their speed and demand extra fees for a faster connection.

IIRC the new regulations reclassify internet as a utility like gas or power or water meaning the provider has to treat all customers the same.

several friends here in sweden got really political about net neutrality

and they probably don't realize that ISPs in sweden already prioritize connections

"You see that nigga turnin', You feel the bullet burnin', Nigga now you learnin'." - Duke Martin Luther King Jr, in his speech Brave New World(7:16:42 PM) richterenderas: dirk_action is a perpetuator of the socialist cause and a powerful ak-47 wardancer

"You see that nigga turnin', You feel the bullet burnin', Nigga now you learnin'." - Duke Martin Luther King Jr, in his speech Brave New World(7:16:42 PM) richterenderas: dirk_action is a perpetuator of the socialist cause and a powerful ak-47 wardancer